A 34-year-old man is facing the Supreme Court accused of sexually abusing two children under the guise of playing a game with them in Pearce in the early 2000s.
"Santa" has written a special Christmas postcard to all his Labor MLAs at Trammany Hall, telling them to be good while daddy's away! KEEPING UP THE ACT's got a copy of it...
“My father, who was in advertising, had heard of this new little industry that was just developing called market research and he made an appointment for me to go to a job interview." ROD HENSHAW talks to social psychologist Hugh Mackay.
"It needs to be demonstrated why paying 75 per cent of the increase in land value from a lease change is not sufficient incentive to encourage the desired development outcomes," writes planning columnist MIKE QUIRK.
"Commissioner Minty has paid significant attention in her report to the importance of a 'structured day' in the rehabilitation of prison detainees," writes indigenous advocate JULIE TONGS.
"When your model relies on what is effectively a toilet tax, it only reinforces one truth – in Canberra, it is literally crap for business," writes GWYN REES.
Police believe three incidents on Friday – a home invasion, where a 72-year-old woman was tied up; a robbery at a Dickson business and a fatal collision on Gungahlin Drive – are linked.